Author: James Chamberlin
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The Angel of Death in Brazil
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In the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) files, Steve Dachi’s Foreign Service oral history relates the story of his identifying the escaped Nazi Josef Mengele’s corpse in Sao Paulo, Brazil. At that time I was the science officer at the American Embassy in Brasilia, and later visited the…
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Zelenskyy Would Not Surrender
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Shortly after becoming President Trump surrendered to Putin on the terms of the Ukraine war. CNN reported, “Trump offers key concessions to Putin ahead of Ukraine peace talks in Saudi Arabia.” In talks today at the White House, Trump acting as Putin’s representative, tried to get Ze,enskyy to surrender to…
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Larry Summers on Ukraine Talks
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In an interview with Bloomberg, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers called the current Ukraine negotiations beyond Versailles, the oppressive agreement ending World War I that led to World War II. “For the policy of the United States to be blaming the victim for the aggression and then taking the destroyed, highly indebted…
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US Deserts Western Europe in UN
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On a routine UN resolution marking the third anniversary of the start of the Ukraine war, the US opposed a reolution condemning Russia for attacking Ukraine that it had supported in previous years, according to the Washington Post. The US was joined in its opposition to the G-7 sponsored resolution…
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Trump Wants to Shut Down the CFPB Because It Was Created by Elizabeth Warren
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Trump and Musk want to to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because it was created by ElizabethWarren, whom they hate, before she was a senator. According to Wikipedia: The agency was originally proposed in 2007 by Elizabeth Warren while she was a law professor. The CFPB’s creation was authorized by…
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Courts Unlikely to Restrain Trump
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Trump campaigned against the courts that were indicting him before he was elected. He has zero respect for courts, although he used them repeatedly to protect himself when he was in the real estate business. Wikipedia has an entry entitled “Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump” It says:…
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Palantir Helped Recruit for Musk & DOGE
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According to Wired, at least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.
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Is Trump Proposing that Palestinians leave Gaza so that Israel Can Annex It?
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The New York Times reports that President Trump declared on Tuesday while meeting with Netanyahu that Palestinians had no choice but to leave Gaza because of the devastation wrought by Israel’s war with Hamas. He indicated that they could move to Egypt or Jordan, who do not want them. If…
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Mexican Soldiers Sent to Border Are Probably Corrupt
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Trump agreed to postpone tariffs on Mexico when Mexico promised to send 10,000 troops to the US border, according to Bloomberg. Unfortuately the Mexican military has been corrupted by the drug culture, according to NPR. Trump may have made a bad deal with Scheinbaum.
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